Middle East Centre Archive St Antony’S College, Oxford Guide to Collections Relating to Sudan

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MECA GUIDE SUDAN

Middle East Centre Archive St Antony’s College, Oxford Guide to collections relating to Sudan

Introduction

Please note that the following Guide is not comprehensive. It has been compiled from the main Guide to the Middle East Centre Archive and only collections in that catalogue that explicitly mention Sudan have been included. Not included in this Guide are several collections that cover the Middle East as a whole and thus may contain material relevant to Sudan. For example British Diplomatic Perspectives on the Middle East; Crow; A.G.M. Dickson; H.R.P Dickson and the Mance papers. For these papers please consult the main Guide to the Middle East Centre Archive.

Where a more detailed description of a collection exists, this is indicated in this Guide by the word ‘Handlist’.

Please note TS means typescript. MS means manuscript i.e. handwritten.

ALLEN, Rt. Revd. Geoffrey Francis, Bishop in Egypt. (1902-82). GB165-0004 Collection of Diocesan Reviews for Egypt and Sudan 1947-52. 1 box.

ANDERSON, Margaret Grace. GB165-0511 Privately printed memoir entitled ‘Mussolini Changed my Life’, written by Dr Margaret Anderson (née Smith). The memoir, which includes some photographs and also maps, documents Margaret Anderson and her family’s movements during World War 2, specifically from December 1939 to May 1946. During this time, the family moved from Glasgow to Sudan, then Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and later Cape Town. Margaret Anderson and her sister Jean fled from Sudan to Rhodesia in 1940, following events relating to the Italian forces’ attack on the border with Ethiopia. Other places visited include France, Beirut, Alexandria and Cairo. Along with personal remembrance and a first person account of childhood and schooling in the British colonies, the memoir includes information relating to the contemporary political and military context. 1 item. Handlist.

ARDAGH, Col. Sir John Charles. (1840-1907). GB165-0015 Diaries of travel 1875-86, comprising Italy, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, Asia Minor, Caucasus, Russia, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, (privately printed); 3 letters, March 1908, from Susan, Countess of Malmesbury to Sir William Everett. 1 vol.; 3 sheets.

BEASLEY, Dr. Ina M. , née Girdwood. (1898-1995). GB165-0022 Minutes of the Gordon Memorial College Council, 1944-1948; material on educational 18 Dec 2019 ©Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford. OX2 6JF 1

MECA GUIDE SUDAN expansion in Sudan: Southern Sudan, 1946-1950; Northern Sudan, 1947-1956. 1 box. Handlist.

BOUSTEAD, Col. John Edmund Hugh. (1895-1980). GB165-0032 “Report on the Sudan Defence Force” 1940-41; memo on agricultural development in E. Aden, 1949-58; “Review of the progress and development department Muscat and Oman” 1958-61; draft autobiography. 2 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.

BOWMAN, Humphrey Ernest. (1879-1965). GB165-0034 Diaries 1903-49, including Egypt 1903-11, Sudan 1911-14, Iraq 1918-20, Palestine 1921-37; personal letters, mostly from Sir Hugh Bell and Sir Ronald Storrs, 1910-54; appointment as Director of Education, Mesopotamia, 1917-20; offers of service in Egyptian Ministry of Education, 1919-20; secondment to Government of Palestine, 1920; correspondence 1922-25 with the Egyptian Government re. pension; Palestine Royal Commission on Education - miscellaneous papers; personal letters to parents; lectures and miscellanea about General Gordon; lectures and book reviews; testimonials, etc.; correspondence with High Commissioner, Palestine, 1934-36; correspondence re. retirement, 1937. 8 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.

CAMERON WATT, Prof. Donald. (b. 1928) GB165-0296 Press-cutting collection from British newspapers covering: oil; the Arabian peninsula; Middle East (in general); Egypt; Cyprus; Malta; Eisenhower Doctrine; Iran; Lebanon; Libya; Iraq Revolution; Israel; Jordan; Syria; Turkey; Sudan; French North Africa; Somaliland; the Suez Crisis; some maps. 11 boxes. Handlist.

DAVIES, Reginald. (1887-1971). GB165-0076 TS of an interview given by Davies to Professor Gabriel Warburg, 28 September 1970, on his career in the Sudan Political Service. 12 sheets.

HORNSBY, Sir Bertram. (d.1943). GB165-0152 Papers on his war service in Egypt, 1915-19; anonymous [Egyptian] criticism of Sir W. Brunyate's proposals for constitutional reform, prepared in 1918; papers on the 1919 riots; Anglo-Egyptian relations under Allenby and Lord Lloyd; economic and financial subjects, 1922-23; memo on the annexation of the Sudan, 1924; anonymous [British] criticism of proposals made by the British Government for abortive treaty negotiations of 1929-30; proposed agricultural mortgage scheme for Palestine, 1933; papers on the status of the National Bank of Egypt and its relations with the Egyptian Government, 1939. 1 box. Handlist.

ILIFF, Sir William Angus Boyd. (1898-1972). GB165-0155 Letter from Gertrude Bell to M. Sevian, 1923, about the situation in Iraq; information for candidates applying to the Egyptian and Sudanese civil service; agreement between the United Arab Republic, Cie Financière de Suez and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development on compensation following the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Co., 1958. 7 sheets; 1 item.

JENNINGS-BRAMLY, Wilfred Edgar (1871-1960). GB165-0160 Letter to Elizabeth Monroe, 28 June 1953, with map to illustrate his belief that the Egyptian frontier of 1841 ran from Suez to Rafah, and that much territory in Sinai had been acquired for

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Egypt by Britain; letters, 1901-53, to Jennings-Bramly and members of his family from friends and relations, mostly dealing with social matters, though with some mention of the war in the Western Desert; exploration notes and accounts of expeditions in Egypt and Sudan. 2 boxes. Handlist.

JERUSALEM AND THE EAST MISSION. GB165-0161 Records, 1841-1970s, including material on Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Iran, Gulf, Egypt, Sudan, Cyprus and N. Africa; with correspondence on the political situation in Palestine, 1916- 67; presscutting volumes. 256 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.

KEOWN-BOYD, Sir Alexander William. (1884-1954). GB165-0167 Photocopied papers on his service in the Sudan and Egypt, 1914, 1919-22; memo on Egypt’s “free” elections, 1930; letters April 1951 and July 1953 on Egyptian politics; photocopied TS copy of an unfinished letter from K-B to his parents on conditions in Jerusalem and observations on Allenby and Storrs; photocopied TS memoir by Henry Keown-Boyd of his father’s orderly Ahmed. 3 folders. Handlist.

LAMPSON, Sir Miles Wedderburn, 1st Baron Killearn. (1880-1964). GB165-0176 MS and TS diaries, 1926-51, in 25 volumes covering his service in China, Egypt and the Sudan, and South-East Asia. 7 boxes. Handlist.

LORAINE, Sir Percy Lyham. (1880-1961). GB165-0186 Press-cuttings from British and local newspapers, including many cartoons, covering his service as High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, 1929-33, and as Ambassador in Turkey, 1933- 39. 11 vols. Photographic collection.

MacMICHAEL, Sir Harold Alfred. (1882-1969). GB165-0196 Correspondence with prominent officials including Lord Lloyd, Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, Sir Reginald Wingate and Ormsby Gore, 1922-1941; Correspondence relating to Palestine, Syria and Sudan including letters from Chaim Weizmann, Judah Magnes, Sir H. Maitland Wilson, Sir Huddleston and Edgar Bonham Carter; Papers relating to MacMichael’s Palestine Commissionership and also the Peel Commission recommendations of 1938; correspondence and papers relating to Palestine charities; texts of speeches and broadcasts by MacMichael 1938- 1944; Anglo-Arab Association correspondence and papers 1945-1961; four volumes of press- cuttings, 1934-1967. 5 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.

SMITH, John Allan. (1894-1966). GB165-0510 Papers relating to the life and work of John Allan Smith at Gellatly, Hankey and Co (Sudan) Ltd consisting of a newspaper article entitled ‘J.A. Smith leaves’, along with a 4 sheet extract from a history of the firm that mentions John Allan Smith and his work at Gellatly, Hankey and Co. Souvenir photographs showing the Hajj before the end of Ottoman rule, that were sent to John Allan Smith in 1923 by a friend who had been on the pilgrimage. 2 files. Handlist. Photographic Collection.

STANLEY, Sir Henry Morton. (1841-1904). GB165-0271 Typed transcript of a letter to Charles Sterling, 2 July 1898, on the prospects of an advance beyond Khartoum to Fashoda. 1 sheet.

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WOLSELEY, Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley. (1833-1913). GB165-0305 Photocopies of 19 private letters, 7 August 1882-18 June 1885 written from Egypt and the Sudan by Wolseley to H.R. Hopkins, Adjutant General, War Office. 31 sheets. Handlist.